Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate" over "family values" and Hollywood's treatment of them. And so he did. A New York Daily News headline set the tone: QUAYLE TO MURPHY BROWN: YOU TRAMP! Switchboards at the White House and on TV and radio talk shows lit up with callers, pro and con. Carl Rowan, a liberal black columnist, sided with Quayle, while Hillary Clinton, wife of the Democratic presidential contender, panned him as typical of "an Administration out of touch with America" and its growing ranks of single mothers...
...YEARS AS A WRITER, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT and editor, Roy Rowan has built a reputation for adventurous, penetrating and durable journalism. From his eyewitness report of the fall of Saigon for TIME in 1975 to his expose of the Mafia's top bosses for FORTUNE in 1986 and an extraordinary account in PEOPLE in 1990 of two weeks spent as a homeless wanderer on the streets of Manhattan, his stories have established Roy as a master reporter, one of the few at the very top of the profession who are both unstoppable investigators and caring chroniclers of the human condition. This...
...Rowan has more than a little experience with strange and difficult stories. He joined LIFE as a correspondent in China in 1948 and spent, in separate assignments, 15 years in Asia as bureau chief for LIFE and TIME in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Saigon. He covered the fall of Shanghai, the Korean War, the Mayaguez crisis and the fall of Saigon. In between, he ran LIFE bureaus in Rome, Bonn and Chicago and was national-affairs editor and assistant managing editor of LIFE. Among his many accomplishments at our sister publication was a pretty good personnel move: he trained...
...this small desert area nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance of palm trees, willows and migratory waterfowl. Off the coast of Scotland, Bernard Planterose, a warden with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and his wife Emma have planted 20,000 slender saplings -- downy birch, rowan, oak and Scotch pine -- to bring back the forest on tiny, windswept Isle Martin. And at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, ground crews and volunteers have returned some 280 hectares (700 acres) of former cornfields to a rustling expanse of big bluestem and Indian grass...
...TALL GUY. Jeff Goldblum is a lanky second banana to an overbearing comedian (Rowan Atkinson); Emma Thompson is the woman who slips on the peel of the tall guy's goofy allure. Keep your expectations low, and enjoy this deft British trifle...